My supercalifragilisticexpialidocious padlet by Oliver BREWER

food groups

obre1 — 2025-09-12 00:01:27 UTC

nutrients

obre1 — 2025-09-12 00:01:39 UTC

food selection models

obre1 — 2025-09-12 00:02:03 UTC

importance of a well balanced diet, why we need food to grow and impact on our overall health

obre1 — 2025-09-12 00:04:01 UTC

A well-balanced diet is greatly important because it gives your body certain nutrients and vitamins, and if you don't have a well balanced diet it could lead to type 2 diabetes, cancers, and chronic heart diseases.

We also need food because without it we wouldn't be able to grow, and without food we would have no energy, and no vitamins and minerals.

The five food groups

obre1 — 2025-09-12 00:16:32 UTC

macronutrients

obre1 — 2025-09-12 00:19:44 UTC

macronutrients like carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are super important for your body. They help with energy, growth and fixing muscles, and maintaining overall health and bodily functions.

some food sources for carbohydrates are bread, oats, and rice. An example for fat is butter, oils, and nuts. lastly protein examples are fish, meat, and egg.

meal sample with all macronutrients

obre1 — 2025-09-12 00:26:01 UTC

Taco wraps are a good source of macro nutrients. The carbohydrates are in the bread and the protein is in the meat, there is no major sugar in this dish so it is relatively healthy. the fat is covered by the whole egg mayo and olive oil

macronutrients helping us

obre1 — 2025-09-12 00:31:03 UTC

protein is essential for repairing and build cells, and is also a great source of energy. you can get protein from, beef fish and eggs. carbohydrates supply dietary fiber witch helps digestion and it also give the greatest yield of energy, both for the brain and to burn. fats provide cell protection and absorbs vitamins to release later on. you can get fats from avocado, seeds, and butter.

A dangerous nutrient

obre1 — 2025-09-12 00:33:14 UTC

Sugar gives you quick energy and is not bad when eaten not often but if you eat to much it can lead to type 2 diabetes and sugar crashes witch basicely just takes away all you energy.

The health star rating system

obre1 — 2025-09-12 00:45:21 UTC

The health star rating was made to supply customers a quick and easy method to determine what product out of that type is the best choice for them. The information is presented in a star rating with 5 stars being the most healthy and 0.5 stars being the least. They compare the product against similar products like white bread with whole meal bread, and Greek yogurt with vanilla yogurt. The strength of the health star rating is the sheer easiness for customers to decide what healthy stuff to eat. but one bad thing of the health star rating is that it gives a five star to products that are healthier than others of its type so it may give a "healthy candy 4 stars when the rest are 1 star